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Preserving your family history has never been easier. In this video, I take you inside my experience using the new Ancestry Preserve service from Ancestry to digitize and preserve old home movies, VHS tapes, film reels, photographs, slides, negatives, documents, and audio recordings. While I personally focused on video and film transfers for this project, […]

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Big changes are coming to Genealogy TV. In this video, I hit the road in my new mobile office and travel to Randolph County, North Carolina to walk the land...

Vital records are the foundation of most family trees but knowing how to read them well is a different skill altogether. In this episode we dig into birth, marriage, and...

Most genealogists rely on death certificates, obituaries, and cemetery records—but what if you’re missing some of the most valuable clues? In this video, we’re exploring five overlooked death-related records that...

Learn about US Civil War Records from professional genealogist Brian Rhinehart. He will walk us through how to determine if the Union Civil War records are our ancestor or not....

Today we’re diving into NotebookLM, a powerful AI tool from Google that is quickly becoming one of the best platforms for genealogy research and record evaluation. In this video, you’ll...

What’s new at MyHeritage in 2026? A lot—and some of it could change the future of genealogy. In this video, I sit down with Daniel Horowitz, Genealogy Expert at MyHeritage,...